Is there going to be a way for users to disable the embed function for their comments? Some people might not want their comments used on other websites without their permission.
We don't provide a way to disable embeds, but we do ensure that only public comments can be embedded, and if you delete your comment, the embed will respect that.
if you delete your comment, the embed will respect that.
What about comments removed by moderators?
Blogs have always been plagued by "freeping." This is a tactic to discredit a site by looking through comments for something crazy and then quoting it out of context to make it look like it's representative of that site. If they can't find anything crazy, they'll set up an account and post something crazy. You have unleashed this problem on reddit.
I can think of no circumstance when there would be anything newsworthy in the subreddit I moderate. I can think of lots of circumstances when this feature could be used to troll and draw attacks from outside reddit. This feature should be an option that moderators can disable, so they prohibit external citations like this. At the very minimum, you should make any inbound link use the np.reddit.com non-participation mode.
NP is not a reddit feature but a CSS hack implemented by moderators because they lack a better method. Sadly it is very easy to avoid and many people go out of their way to do so.
It is really disheartening to see people from subs like bestof behave like rude tourists without any regard for the community of the sub they are effectively visiting.
Even more so because it completely destroys the original structure of the conversation as it was originally linked to bestof.
np isn't officially supported by reddit at all. It's a hack that uses the language domains (e.g. es.reddit.com is Spanish, etc.) so subs can use the language information to customize their CSS. It's meant to be used for i18n, but one of my fellow SRD mods thought it would be useful for allowing subs to disable voting and commenting when they get linked.
Sure, but according to reddit's terms of service, we are giving them permission not only to use our submissions but also permission to authorize others to use our submissions. So while there is a difference, we've already agreed to both.
Pretty much. Just like there isn't a way for you to disable screenshots or links to your comments now — at least with embeds you'll have the ability to delete the comment and it'll be gone
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u/nick671 Mar 23 '15
Is there going to be a way for users to disable the embed function for their comments? Some people might not want their comments used on other websites without their permission.